The party continues their investigation in the Black Rose tavern, a high-risk, all-assassin establishment where every interaction carries danger. Through skillful roleplay and the use of detect thoughts, they discover that Jimisin, a powerful figure with ties to the party’s family, has been orchestrating a covert campaign to eliminate threats and destabilize the city. Jimisin reveals he sent assassins to kill the heroes’ allies, believing them to be dangerous, and that his stepfather, Larry, is attempting to erase the city’s original bloodlines and history. The group learns that Jimisin’s actions stem from a deep fear of losing control, and that his mother—now unstable—is a key target. With this intelligence, the party formulates a plan to infiltrate Larry’s upcoming fancy dress ball as a cover to gather information, knowing full well that direct confrontation would be deadly. To gain access, they must retrieve the body of Bill Millman, a skilled forger, to use his corpse as a proxy for a resurrection spell. They travel to Bill’s shop to recover his body, then transport it to a back cave, where they find a hidden note from a former agent, Bob, who bequeathed his midnight major armor to the party. This discovery strengthens their belief that the city’s true history is being erased and that only by uncovering the old bloodlines can they stop Larry’s reign. The group now prepares for a high-stakes infiltration, with the knowledge that their mission is not just about survival—but about reclaiming their identity and protecting their family from being erased.
Hello and welcome back to RingerQuest, a roleplaying adventure on the Ringer podcast network. I am your host and game master Steve Alman, and we're back again for another rocking episode of RingerQuest. It's going to be a direct continuation of the last episode that you saw. I guess what, it was a lot sooner than last time. So when we last left our heroes, they were just entering the Black Rose tavern. They were assaulted in the night by, oh my god, come on, bro. Okay, well, I mean too much into that. Come on, man. It's tough. It's tough. Steve. That's the queen. Yeah. That's the queen. That's the queen. That's the queen. Yeah. They found themselves in the city and a kind of unwelcome reunion for ODATI Tibido. And we're now entering the Black Rose tavern. It's now pretty welcoming that you can see. But let's enter the threshold and enter the Black Rose tavern. Wonderful. All right. Cool. So, you enter the Black Rose tavern. It's actually surprisingly clean, beautiful, even, very black, very elegant table, elegant tables. Very what? Steve. Black painted elegant table. He said, hey, Steve, look out. Look out. I went out to hear him. Wait a second, Steve. Steve. Steve was thinking about to sell them. Steve was like, it was very clean, very beautiful, even, very black, freaky ass. Surprisingly eloquent. Her name was the eloquent, named Luquisha. Yeah. Very like upscaled. You hear music, but it's kind of music. All right. Roll for a rat. Yeah. It's all the three. So it's three. It's not good, rat. Yeah. They got a big show on the back. They're not in play. Jack Harlow in his face. It's the first clean and articulate tavern. Yes. This is why you can't take a break. It's surprisingly upscaled. It's very elegant. It's very elegant. That's my question. The idea of black rose. That's crazy. You know, because there's danger. Oh. Oh. Steve, what the fuck? I'm talking about it. Get him off. You Steve. Ready. They started to ask you why I got to be a black rose. Say because it can't reach. Oh my gosh. Is there a white rose tavern? I'm not alive to be a white rose. Tight up. Tight up. We give a lot of me during the break. We'll say that. A lot of me during the break. As you enter the tavern, I'll give him a second. As you enter the tavern, a few things catch your eye. There is a beautiful bartender, polishing a glass that's somehow already clean. There is a hooded figure playing cards in the corner. There's a barred playing very elegant music on stage, but the place isn't rowdy. There's about 30 people in this place. It's not too full, but it's just occupied enough. And there are, there's a smattering of people that are talking and chatting and what would you like to do? Is the bartender hot? I'll buzzy. Yeah. You already know. We were all wondering, this is the bartender hot. Oh yeah. Oh. Absolutely. Okay. Great. I would like to see, uh, Jomi and Mallory battled to sit in the corner. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Who said anything about that? We're all family. Here's what it is. We go to the bartender. We see whoever, uh, they're feeling. If it's me, I need the lob. If it's you, I'm throwing you at a lob. It's teamwork, baby. We don't know. Let's get our minds out of the gutter. I feel like we should go to the bartender and be like, Hey, what do you know about a daddy? You've seen anything out of the ordinary. Yeah, man. Yeah. Yeah. Do you guys know, I get all of this stuff, I'm very uneasy, man. I want these people to recognize me, man. Well, you dress as an assassin. We should worry. Yeah. She's glad. We should probably focus on that. But bartenders are like a great source of information. Yeah. They already know the whole thing. Right. Everybody was coming and going for a beverage. Do you think anyone noticed the giant bag of, uh, body parts that we were dragging with us? Oh, were you still dragging? Go drive bag of party parts? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to put it on like a luggage. Yeah. No rewind. When you get into the bar, there's like another like, now we've got a guy that comes in another like 10 foot tall muscle bound org surprise. Am I checking the bag? Is it actually leading? Would you like to check your bag, miss? Nice voice work, Steven. I don't know who that is, but who are you? Um, yes, I would like to check this bag. Um, please don't open it. And if it starts dripping blood, will you just put a towel underneath it or something like that? I know what's happened. You're in. I don't ask any questions. We'll take that for you. There you go. Oh, interesting. All right. Now let's listen. And oh, he gives you the ticket. I would like. I want to know what talia thinks we should do. Oh, man, I'm about to fuck shit up in this, in this place. Who's got the answers? What are you trying to do? Talk to the bartender. Yeah. We should talk to the hot bartender. So who wants to talk to the hot bartender? All right. I got a 17. I'm already rolling up on it. What do you know? What have you seen? All right. All right. So are you literally just walking up to a bartender and saying, what do you know? Who do you see? You see me out. Yes. Yes. What's going on? All right. I feel like I just can't just tell you something. A little more time. You ever see how to do it? Huh? You ever see how they do it in the movies? They walk up and they play it real cool. And then they say, hey, what's going on? What goes on around this town? You got to get the bartender in with a little charisma. And then you got to hit him with the question. Okay. So my friend wants every little answer. Who's coming up to this bar to talk to me? What's going on? What's going on in this bar to talk to me? What's going on? I wrote this seven years ago. Holly has a 16 charisma. What's three years ago? Oh, shit. I'm losing the shit out of this. Okay. So she comes up to you. She looks up. This is a, this is an Elvis woman. She's polishing the glass. An Elvis woman. Oh, man. As she bow. Damn. Pointy years. What's her name? We got to focus on a mission. How much that tuition cost you, girl? Come over here. I got to know her. Wait. Don't hit on the bartender. She's like, she's like, that's a funny way to ask for a drink. Girl. Tell me what you know. All right. Wait. Wait, she's, you see some assassins around these parts? Like, well, what do you know? What have you learned? Sorry. Do you know what bar you're in? This is the assassin bar. First of all, it's not a bar. Oh, everyone here is an assassin. Everyone, danger, danger, danger. Everyone here is an assassin. Oh, boy. Okay. Is the part, is the bar an assassin? Sorry, sorry, honey. You must be new. What's your name? All right. Relax with the attitude. Oh, wow. That is too. Should I call you a last name blood heart? Recognize. I need you to roll occurs with check for this. This disgusting display. Oh, that's it. That's a six plus three. That's a nine. That's not bad. Uh-huh. Okay. All right. So you've talked to a woman. You've talked to women bar before Charles. Yeah. Can you tell when you're like losing it? When you're losing her in the conversation? Ah, such a bad feeling. You're kind of losing. You're kind of losing her a bit. All right. She's got that like, uh-huh. Yeah. That's all for dexterity. You have to trauma. 19. Yeah. How many? How many? Dexterity for what? But a conversation. No, no, no. You don't, you don't know. Dexterously use the conversation. A tongue can be dexterous. Yes. That's not. Okay. That seems aggressive. That's very aggressive. So what are you trying to ask her? You gotta learn secrets. Are you, like, are you actually asking her a question? You've seen us ask her. What are you talking about? Have you seen anything untoward in these parts, Madame? No. I like this part. Okay. She, she like, she like, literally chuckles. She like pours you a little glass. And she's like, I'm gonna go over there. And like, goes to like, clean up the bar on the other side. Leo. Yeah. You're up. You're up, Leo. Uh, okay. This is about to be a disaster. So you walk up to the bar too. Uh, I wrote a, I wrote a six plus two. Six plus two for charisma. I just want to, can I get a drink? Okay. Like, you could just talk to this person. Oh, I would like a drink. Um, great. Can I get your, your strongest meat? Okay. Wonderful. She pours you a drink. It's like, all right. That'll be two silver. Two silver. I got two silver. I thought we were like a nice little gold piece. Keeps change. And she, okay. So you, you, you effectively throw in a hundred dollar bill down on a drink that costs five dollars. Yeah. That's what you do though. That's a lot. Yeah. And so she's like, let's find. Oh, okay. Uh, what else can I get you? Oh, oh, oh, Leo. You know, another time. Leo, Leo. - If we be in there, we gotta get the information guys. - Yeah, get it however you do. - Talk to a girl. (laughing) - She's looking at you, she's waiting. - I love you, Steve. - I love you. - Yeah, love you. (laughing) - I love you, I love you. - I love you. - I love you, I love you. - I love you. - Show me how you look. - She's looking at you. I'm saying but like I gotta you know if you're it out mission or my mission. You're mission Good we're doing good, you know, it's been it's not exactly busy season, but we're doing fine That's what's up. Okay, how long you work here? Oh about like six months not too long Where you what's all where you from like where your family from? I've come out of town This was like, you know, just a better option. I was going to school, but oh, where were you studying? Oh, man Biology biology. Yeah, you go like would you want me a doctor? Like like you know trying to help people? I mean listen, we all got to pay the bills somehow and thank you again You've been you've been nice. Thank you so much Hey, is there anything that I is there anything that you that you need while you're while you're in? I do I need some information, but like I was made I don't know this place can kind of busy So much to talk privately, okay, well, I'm still on shift. Yeah, I mean we can wait. I go wait You know, I got time. That's fine. I know now wait a minute. Are you are you like are you just trying to are you trying to say that just to like you know Baby, look I get that Like you seem like you actually have some business here. So do you want to get to know listen? How about this? What time you get off? I don't have I don't know a question I go away now and a half listen you had your business I have my business, but I'll be back in 90 minutes. Yeah, and I know and we can we can we can go to another bar Okay, go to your place. We can figure it out, but I'll see you I gotta go to give you a little wink and then that's that's it. You didn't get any information, but I gotta go to I gotta go to the bar Okay, that is turn this girl's working a lot now, okay? I got a two. Okay, so the charisma role. Yeah. Okay, you can again, you can just talk to somebody We can advise okay, hey, whoa, there's a two mean. He's like drools on you and I mean catastrophic, but like you know, I have to see what he tries to do. Okay, so How many gold coins do you have? You need one hundred hundred gold coins. Okay, so can I have a drink please? Yes, what do you have I have a sparkling mead great? Well, first of all, is that what you recommend? I mean, I like there's this sparkling me, but I think there's also Odoules. That's like really good. I think I'll do sparkling me. Yeah, okay, we're here which pours you once Because she gives you like a little taster. Yeah gives you that a lot of air refreshing. Okay. She'll pull you up for your half Great. There you go. Hmm two silver here. Here's two silver Here's three hundred gold You can answer a couple of questions for me. Okay, she like This is enough money to like legitimately scare somebody, but she's like Good over. Okay. Yeah. So here's a deal. I need to know Basically who comes in and out of this place. I'm here. I'm new. I'm not sure the way that it works There is some business I might be conducting here What kind of places this who comes in and out of here if I needed to learn something who would I talk to? Okay, and she's she's she's a little uneasy. Mm-hmm. She brush it. She brushes the the pile of 200 gold Back to you and she's like Keep the money. Keep the drink I think the person that you want to talk to is corn over there in the in the corner Corn over there. Corn. Corn. The guy with the cards. Got the cards. Got the cards over there. And you're gonna want to talk to him I don't know what this is, but Let's not worry about that. Thank you very much. I apologize for my friend Alright, which one? Which one? I thought Leo did a great job. Um All right, so now we have to go talk I don't know, but I don't want to talk to corn You don't want to talk to corn? I think right whiskey So he's so like that if I talk to corn The person that you're coming up on like put it figure He's just like kind of like doing some like little card like tricks by himself Like he's just like doing like a little solitary thing Like he's he's buying loads some. He's he's not bothering anybody. I talked to whiskey real quick. Okay. Whiskey. I can't go talk to this guy You know, like like Leo we're gonna lose Leo in 90 minutes when he takes the bartender out to the hotel So like I can't I can't talk to this guy you need to talk to this guy this guy might make me if I go over there and talk to him So I can't risk it. I can't risk it. Guess what? I'm gonna step up for you. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah family. Okay. So you want to you want to approach Corn? I'm walking forward. Okay. In one hand, I have scotch supported in the baby Bjorn and the other I have my spell book Okay, which has four books inside of it. Uh for four different spells Damn four spells. Yes. Okay But I don't think I need those quite yet though. I see how they might come in handy. Mm-hmm I do think it is time to use detect thoughts. Okay. Oh Let's not fuck around it. Okay. We're on the clock. So what do you want to do? I want to know what what this guy knows what Corin and his his cards know. Okay, so In a conversation ask the DM. Can I read their surface thoughts? Mm-hmm All right, so first you got to start a conversation with them. So okay, how do you want to approach him? Do you want to Say hello strike up a conversation? Uh, I'm gonna ask him to deal me in So he so he in the midst of his like little yeah, little uh, card thing looks up. Yeah, sensual Well, actually I mean deal man course. That's the way to go. Actually, he doesn't look up because you're three feet tall Three foot five uh three foot five. Yeah, and he's like oh hey there Yeah, didn't expect anybody to join me. What's your name? Uh My name is rye, but my friend's called me whiskey. This is scotch Yeah, thanks for asking. Uh, I just learned that it comes in pints, you know, oh yeah, it doesn't Fellowship reference for getting one you are getting what a whole kind of whiskey. Yeah, oh wow can uh Can you deal me in can you deal me in what's your name your name's Corin? Yeah, you're the famous Corin I heard about you over there heard heard about you over over the blind The people that tend to learn about me want to want to make some money. You hear to make some money Oh, I'm always here to make some money Have a seat Um, he's gonna give you like a variation of like blackjack basically that you guys are gonna play okay, and where's the rest of the party Like can they give me thanks from what do you guys want to hang out this is gonna base it to be like a one that we're gonna do At the bar probably um, can Max he's laying in the cut probably just taking the trick Can Max transform into a bat and perch on my shoulder to give me like bat Advice, I mean okay, we'll have a quick wisdom check up here I mean either whoever wants to consider transforming into a bat Okay, well, you look around and you're like maybe being a bat maybe changing from a person into a bat and into a crowd full of people is a good idea That Yeah, so you transform it so you Were a person that we're standing at a bar and then poof you become a bat. Okay, um, okay, I guess I got a Yeah, oh wow, all right great nobody notices great Nobody notices uh, what do you want to do as you're a bat perch on whiskey shoulder. Okay, so as you're sitting down Like your shoulder and just like and then the corn's like whoa Jesus Christ Don't worry about it. What are yours? Yeah, uh, I see you got a cat so I guess you're you're one of those animal types I know what that means all of the creatures of the realm Are my type all right, well, whatever so he's on face. So he's like all right So what do you what do you uh What do we care to make money off of today? Mm-hmm information Currency of information is what I'm after okay secrets What can you tell me about Larry the first king Larry How's his rule going is that right now? Uh And he's okay, interesting um, fuck you up He considers that no, he considers that he's like you don't know how to you're like how Larry's rule going, huh? Yeah, um, how's King Larry doing right now. It hasn't been state of the realm. So yeah, you haven't been around lately I'm uh, I'm a first known so you know a trip to the big city I'm new in town. It's a milestone for me Uh-huh, and you know what I always try to do first is learn about a place and learn about its people So that I know how to make the most of my experience I'm a traveling. I'm a traveler and I'm a citizen of the world Well The story's one thing The truth is another uh-huh the truth costs money Time to use his attack thoughts on you. Okay Whiskey focuses on the minds around her can read the surface thoughts of a creature she can see within 30 feet great news Okay, you're like four feet away great and I have dark fish great I really need to put you guys a more dark horse 61 feet away from you I can learn about emotional state reasoning what looms largest in okay great I can learn what looms largest in this person's mind And I think after asking about King Larry in the state of play in the land The thing that would lose largest in in uh, Koran's mind as you just said is the stories one thing the truth is another Thinking subconsciously about what the truth is and now I'm gonna know that I'm gonna be able to glean that with detect thoughts. Okay. What's the truth? Okay, so as you detect his thoughts basically like the things that pop up in your mind are It it feels like you're like pulling like a cloud out from like like a
like the sky to like reveal like a picture. And the things that is inside of his mind is like he's thinking about if he's gonna be found out or made or discovered because there's the like a prevailing thought he's just like, oh God, another person asking me about him. - Oh boy. - Oh boy. Why is it gonna, like this better not come back to me. Like it was very clear that it wasn't supposed to come back to me. - Okay. - King Larry definitely hired this dude. - So he hired the assassin. - So you can tell that he is worried. There's no like real information that you can gleam from it. But there's more about the fact that he now knows that you must know something that you're not supposed to. - Um. - Okay. - Can I unbat? (laughing) - Okay, you also don't know his thoughts, only Ryan knows this. - Okay, so I need to excuse myself and update the group. - So you're gonna get up, right? - You don't wanna do that. - You don't wanna give up. - Yeah, you wanna drive the game. - How long does the text thoughts last? - Does it not say? - One minute. - So I can learn more. - You can. - I'm gonna ask you one more time. - I'm gonna ask a question. - I'm gonna ask the truth. - I'm gonna ask you a, Mallory. - Yes, small piece. - Did you see the Dead Zone? Did you see the Dead Zone, the movie The Dead Zone? - Yeah. - So in the Dead Zone, he shakes somebody's hand, he touches them. - Yeah. - You know, he just gives like one image. - Yeah. - He shakes his hands at the end and he sees a mushroom cloud. And he's like, this guy's gonna fucking become president and blow up the world. So then right after that one image, you gotta make a snap decision after about what you do. - Okay. - In that movie. - But I have a minute. So I can ask more questions, see more images. Then I can use my, I can talk to small beasts. I can very quickly pass that along to Max and Baffron who can go and form the party. - Yes. - Wonderful. - And I don't have to blow up our spot by getting up from the garbage. - Okay, so you gotta keep asking him questions. - I'm in the bathroom. - He's always like, all right. So where's one thing? Truth's another that the truth usually costs money. How do you actually respond? - What's the truth? And then you think what you just thought. So that's where we are. Where you're like, oh, shit's better not come back on me. And I think. - You have to find a graceful exit from the situation. - What do I mean? - Well, I wanna ask about, I wanna ask about O'Datty, but how? How to ask about O'Datty without asking about O'Datty, right? What is the current state of the succession? - Larry's succession. - Yes, who's currently in line to inherit the throne here in this great metropolis? - Oh, it's not suspicious. - No, not at all, not at all. - You know, I'm a researcher, knowledge is my passion. So I like to learn about current events and also history so that I can best appreciate the lands that I'm currently in. - Yeah, but can you give me a performance check with that? 'Cause like, it's not a lie, but like you're trying to like, obfuscate like 14. - 14. Should I be adding? Okay, no, no, no. That's good enough. No, no, that's good enough. And it's just gonna pop in your head. I can detect your thoughts that you don't have to want to talk to every right. It's just gonna pop into your mind of the Move the cloud away the portrait from there and I watch the truth. It's like well My business isn't exactly knowing who the successor is, but more so what the successor wants It's this isn't something that you're polishing to say to me. This is just your The the thoughts in his mind are Jimisin better not have screwed me. Jimisin. Yes Jimisin better not have screwed me and And if the end if and if this Run knows what I'm supposed to do. I dare you then I shouldn't have come into this town in the first Okay, I'm gonna commune with small b's. I'm passing that along to max max is gonna go to the bathroom where Odadi is taking a piss and Update him because Jimisin is a name he's gonna know We don't have a spell where we could just like freeze this my fucking taking with us Doesn't name Jimisin me something to you uncle. That's your uncle. Well, it's not my uncle. It's my it's my it's like burn It's Larry blackburn's brother. Step on. Okay, Jim Yeah, it's uncle. Yeah, I mean, he's not my real uncle, but like a man. Oh, no, excuse me. Yes, this is my blood father's brother It's my deceased father's brother. Jimisin. Are you guys cool? What's the what's the live there thought we were? All right, I'm leaving the bathroom. I'm gonna get the bag of body parts from the co-check out of that form We need to find Jimisin or are you coming up as a bad to no, I'm coming back up dresses as the assassin with the bag of body parts Okay, now it seems like my bitch ass uncle Had my dad killed and then knew that that was gonna make me leave Yeah, and that he was responsible for Larry coming to power Well, what do you actually know about that information like you just say you just know a name. She has come to me Well, no, but she talked to him. Yeah, I told max max told I'm just come on me like you're still at the table Yeah, I like a minute so this is like you got one more question to read is but if you bring him the bodies Come back to me and tell me quickly what oh daddy told you and let's one is our last question. Do you plan to do that? This is a bit like two metta Bad again, what's our final question after you've you learned now that history the family history watch so I now need I know that now And we are gonna ask and what is your daddy tell you how to say ask this what do you want to know about jimisin about jimisin? I want to know why in the hell is this guy working for jimisin? I thought jimisin when I left When I left jimisin begged me not to leave and told me that it would be dooming to the entire realm if I left I thought he was what if what if this guy is working for jimisin trying to assassinate Larry what? He could be he could be trying to remove Larry to clear the path to the throne for you or that could have been a cover 15 years Going he wanted you gone the whole time right so we need to know how jimisin What was his mood when you left and you were no longer there? We're breathful. Oh when I left he tried talking to me and saying but then when you actually left how did he behave didn't talk to him Haven't talked to anybody from here for 15 years He told you this you've come back. You've whispered it to me as a bat. We still have cloud vision. Uh-huh. This is this is actual. Yeah And jimisin jimisin No free no free ads. No name to map the Reverend TJ jimisin from banrooch. Oh well and jimisin. Yeah How did he Respond to the air to the throne? Where's my dad? I read a fight. I don't recall saying jimisin. Oh, we fuck He hasn't done anything. Oh, he's like a little freaked out at the moment. I can use the abyss answers What? That's one of my new powers. Okay Corn says this and he's like look. I'm like I told you I was really sure I read that name in the tomes when I was preparing to come to the tomes Good performance check. That's a lot great cover great cover tomes. He's got to know if he believes that big Tom big buddy big buddy big buddy big buddy big buddy What to your charisma? Oh shit lots of negative. That's a negative too. Yeah. All right So listen eight. I think that's enough to at least not die. Okay, so here's the thing So the fact that you pulled a name out of his mind and Doesn't really know it's like he's more sick. He's more freaked out than anything else. Yeah, I want him on edge But he's more freaked out the fact that like he doesn't know who you are or the fact that you know what's going on in his head or like Can know his business. He's like, hey listen I don't know who you are, but should we do tell you this is getting too complicated for me. Yeah, just tell everyone like Let's get it popular. Yeah, we might have to just water the hole. Yeah, we're just gonna kill him. We got him But we need it and then so that's right. So he attempts to leave. Do you want to stop him or are you gonna let him go? Yeah, we can't risk him warning jimisin. We have to stop him. We have no choice. He's got a guy. I'm sorry I've got a whole person. Oh, hey, we have Max. He's on her shoulder. Yeah, Max. Can we have Max drain him? Is she full from Bill? Bill was a tiny little guy. By the way, do you mean to like kill him or turn him? Oh, kill him He's dead dead. I did not want that attitude as a vampire. Oh wonderful. I understand He's gonna leave. What are you ready? We're gonna stop him. I'm gonna eat him. We must stop him. How can we stop bar? We got to wait till he's outside. Yeah, let's get him outside. Okay, so he's like I'm just gonna go to the bar over there You didn't see me. This place is about discretion. All right, roll for jumping him. Yeah He goes off to the bar. Yes, he goes off to the bar. You're gonna jump him in the bar. No Sitting at the bar. Great. Oh Hasn't interacted with him yet. He needs to go to him and lure him out. I can't do it. Can't be but you are in disguise Leo, it's not gonna work. Like well, it's not gonna work. Also, I don't have the powers of perception and stuff like that. Okay. Yeah, you're up again. Guess what?
back at the bar. No, I'm going to do this for you. Yeah, you got to do it. Okay, so you've I'm starting a fire. You can rescue the Elven bartender. Get on out of there. Everyone else has got to go outside. Love it. Okay. Now here's a deal though. How do you want to do this? I can't say something real quick. Yeah, just let you know about this plan. If you start the fire, then everybody's going out. Yeah, it's always it's yeah. So we're going to get them while everybody's out there. Well, they're going to scatter. Okay. Yeah, it's a fire. Okay, so you were going to start a fire. Yeah. Do you want to do this like on the slide? Or do you want to just like make a Molotov cocktail and like throw it in the middle of the bar? Can you describe the room to me again really quickly? Okay. So there's like 12 tables, circular tables. Yeah. Yeah. What's every black and very black and very black. All of music goes like with like again, 30 people in the in the bar in total. Are they like banners? Is there silverware on the table? Yes. Are there paintings? Yes. Okay. I'm using heat metal to heat all of the silverware on the table until it's flaming hot and all the tables burst into flame. Okay. Now do you are you? Does that spell say that you can heat everything that's metal in the room or one thing that's metal in the room? Okay. Just one thing. Okay. What's the biggest metal thing in the room? Okay. So perception check real quick. Okay. Listen, it's a nine, but that's not bad. All right. So even with a nine, you can see like this really big like coat of arms that's right behind the bar. And it's like a big shield and two swords with an insignia of a rose and some daggers inside of it. It's like adorned across like a wooden mantle piece. Yeah. And it's right. And it's just like right behind the bar. Yeah. I'm going to go burn that thing. Fantastic. Okay. So you cast heat metal on that coat of arms. Yeah. So it Leo get ready. So it glows like red hot. Yeah. And the metal begins to melt and of course, hold on one second. Okay. Wow. So it like it starts to burn and melt and the wood starts to catch on fire. Correct. And slowly it starts to get a little bit bigger. And the people at the bar start to realize that it is catching on fire. And there are some people that are freaking out now and beginning to leave. Yeah. There's like a little bit of chaos is like, Hey, somebody put that out and like they start to get buckets. Yeah. And they start to throw water over it from outside. And the fires put out. I'm stepping in. But here's the thing. You notice that I have mine has left. That's all we need. Amazing. You got to find him. Well, tallios and Leo were tracking the whole time. Yeah. Okay. We're there. Yeah. Absolutely. They can see in. Okay. I followed them outside. They follow him outside. Yeah. I'm going to hold on that. Yeah. But your back outside the back. We outside. So it's just you and him. Yeah. And then everybody you guys are still in the bar. Right? Yeah. Okay. So I'm in the bathroom. Okay. How will you be in the bathroom? Well, I'm dressing my wound. I want me to get infected. It's out here. The shit is the shit is going on. And I'm in the bathroom for like 90 minutes. Fucking brother. I'm 14 again. All right. All right. Let me do the dressing. My wound. I was dressing. My wound. I was like, you know, which I want me to do. I can't be seen. Right. Yeah. No. You're laying low. Yeah. Okay. Low. All right. So you guys are outside. You guys are able to corner core. And do you want to start a fight? Or do you want to like immediately like intimidate him and interrogate him? What you want to do? Let's walk. We go. Like we we knock. We can't tell them that we're going. We create. We will kill him. But if you want to leave, you want to walk away from this, we're going to need every single bit of information. All right. So how do you want to come up on him? You want to like like stick him with like put some. Yeah. Put it on your side. Yeah. You got to put a dagger to his throat. All right. Got it. All right. Roll for that. So no, no, no. You got to. So this is going to be like a grapple check. So like you're going to you're going to come up behind him. Grab him and then put a knife to his throat. So he's going to try to like escape that grapple check. That's an immediate survival instinct. So roll a grapple check. Roll a grapple check. What did you get? Plus your strength. Oh shit. Tough. What's your strength? Tough. That's tough. Oh, my strength. I don't think I can hold on. It's got to be competing. So I got a role for this. I wrote a three. And I don't have that shit. Any strength. Okay. Leo. Okay. You do always. Tolly is up to you now. Strengths right next to Constitution. At the top. Oh, it's right there. Oh, no, zero. Zero. Okay. Great. Tough. Oh my god. He rolled the one. Wasn't like so be safe. He's immediately in a chokehold. He's got a knife through his story. He's like, oh, fuck. Okay. What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? Listen, we're I'm going to tell you some names and you're going to give us information. All right. Jemisin. What do you know? Jemisin, Tibido? Yes. Who is that? That's that's that's the the brother of the the queen magistrate of here. Right. And what is did he try to have some people killed? Yeah. Yeah. He hired me to get to get to get that done. And like he told me to hire my worst guys. Worst guys. Yeah. I don't know why he said that. It's trying to lure you back. It's a trap. Oh, no. It's very clear. We get trapped. To fucking go through the telebook. God damn it. Fuck. What is going on. So he wanted us to kill these guys. So he followed and followed the trail to come back here. Okay. What a fucking bitch. Okay. Interesting. Does Larry not Fishburnt know about this? I don't know. I'm assuming so. He wanted to know daddy dead for years. So wait a minute. If you wanted. Okay. Okay. I'm just going to come out. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He wants all of us. He wants you alive. Why does he want Odadi alive? I don't know. Ask him. Where is he? Where is he? He's in the bathroom. Not Odadi's in the bathroom. - No, do this into the bathroom. - Oh! - Come back to the bathroom! - Oh my God! - Oh my God, that actually was exciting. - I was really nervous. - Oh, okay. - Oh, look at the bathroom. - Oh, daddy. - Look at the bathroom. - Oh, my back got-- - Oh, daddy. - That is so fucking fun. - Oh, my God, I was really good. - Wow. - Oh, my God, I'm chill. (laughing) - Oh, daddy, you feel a hand on your shoulder. - Oh, no. - On the urinal. - Oh, no. - He was trusted. - Oh, my God, he's rude at the urinal. - You guys, I'm legitimately nervous. (laughing) - And he's like, "I catch you in the bathroom again, son." - Wow. - And it is your uncle, Jimisin, tip it out. - Okay. - Oh boy. - He's like, "I catch you in the bathroom again "after all these years." - Again, like-- - All right. - It's not masturbating. - Is that masturbating? - I thought I talked to him. - He's like, "You must be, yeah." - Well, "unk." Just like, "Vin." It seems like to me that the bathroom is the safest place to be. - Well, it better be. - You got nothing to say to me? - I was actually expecting you to have something to say to me being that it seems pretty obvious that you sent some dead slap dicks to try to kill me and my friends. - Yeah. - So my question is, what the fuck is wrong with you? - Yeah, those slap dicks that I sent you are people that I knew that you could handle. I taught you how to fight since you were 10 years old. All right, and I take it, they seem to give you some trouble. - Yeah, a little bit of trouble. And I would think that if you loved me that welcoming me back would involve helping me find my mom and say hello to everyone and maybe having a couple of drinks with a couple of animals. - All right, okay. - Again with the animal thing. - I know that that's why you left. - I know, and I don't want to hear it. - And I don't want to hear about the fucking animal. - Meal, you never really like it. - You never gave me the opportunity to love the animals that I love and I had to leave. - It's hard to kill Jameson. - This is getting wild. - Oh my goodness. - Get you and your fucking friends into the corner booth. I got a private room. We're gonna talk about this. - Why should I trust you? - Yeah. - Because your mother's in peril. - Oh. - Okay, and I needed you to come back. - You could just send her, Raven. - Yeah, you said it. - He is, because I knew that he couldn't. I sent those idiots, because your fucking stepfather wants you dead, and I was assigned to do it. So the reason that I sent a bunch of idiots to do it is 'cause I know they wouldn't fucking kill you. - To maintain the cover. - And the only way to get you back here is to try to threaten your life, apparently, because we try to reach out to you and you never fucking call back. So anyway, welcome back. - Well, I'll tell you this. I'm gonna go out and get my friends. But I won't let you know something. I won't let you know something here. So I hope you're talking to me like this. - Yeah, I hope you're talking to me like this. - I hope you know this. We have a vampire, we have a forest known, right? We have the baddest motherfucker in the whole world. You've never seen anybody like that. We have myself, and we have Leo. - Right. (laughing) So we have Leo. So the moment.
But Leo is also the moment that any of this doesn't pass our smell test right. We are going to fuck you up, fuck him up and fuck everybody up that we think is in on this. Look, it's fine. I'm in a moment of desperation here. All right. Yes, I have to like it. What is that? Let's go to the lead. I need to tell you something. All right. All right. And like you and like roll a sense motive here. That's an 18. That's an 18. So you can clearly tell that like you've seen this look on him before it's genuinely earnest. Like he's not trying to fuck with you here. Like he did what he had to do. You can tell that. But you have a lot of questions still. Yeah, of course. Okay. So you guys, do you want to like gather everybody else? I got to go get everybody. Okay. So you gather everybody else. You come back into a private room. It's like near the back. Are we still got jibisin? I mean, what do you want to do with what you mean, Karin? No, no, no. Oh, Karin. Yeah. Sorry. We got we still have a nice dude. We have. Okay. We have enough all that. We're gonna fall back outside. Please. That's a great question. Where's the hot bartender? She actually is about to like walk out on her shift and she and she. So you got a night. You had a night to do a guy's throat. And she's like, Hey, is your name Leo, is your name? What are you doing? I thought you were. Hey, don't worry about that. Listen, I got some business. I got to attend to. Is there like, you're holding a man's like, yeah, is that an address or a ring? Is this a record? Is this your last time too? It's also a record. Reach you where we know what this is. She scrolls like she gets like a little bit of parchment. Like scrolls or address. And she's in favor, toss it your way. And she's like, I got like in time after eight. I will. I will hit you later. Let's go to the corner booth. Sorry. You wait. So hold on. Are you letting this Karin guy go? No, no, no. I'm with him. I got her number. We going back to the. I'm with Karin. He's coming to the booth with us. Coming to the booth with him. Yes. Okay. So you're walking into the bar with a man with a man like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you gotta tell him out. No, no, no. Are you fucking nuts? No. Like, wait. We gotta keep him with us because we gotta know that he's we can't bring him back into the bar gunpoint. Can't do it. Everybody's still in the bar. People are going to know me. Jomi. We can't do that. I'm getting pissed. We got to we got to bring him in there. We have to bring Jimis an out. What did you have to have the dagger to his back? We can't not bring him in there. We lose all cooked up. I think we have to verify the information. So either. Okay. Okay. So yeah, not to his throat. Yeah, not to the red. So if I'm hearing this right, you are going to walk him back into the bar with like a knife to his right anymore like like hide the fact that he is being wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. What we should do is we should send me back in to the corner booth alone and we should then put it to Jimis and if he really wants to have this conversation, he should come outside. Yeah. And then when he comes outside, so you're going to. Okay. So what you want to do is actually you're changing the location and you want to go. I'm going to go to the corner booth alone and I'm going to put him to the test now because if he's sincere, if he'll come outside, when he comes outside, he'll see his guy who will know he's fucking me. We very recently were attacked in our own bedroom in some happy, happy corners. We can't like conduct business on someone else's turf. We can't do it. We need to leave it. Okay. So you're you're taking this. You're taking this out outside. You tell everybody else the whole party is coming outside. Yes. We're all on edge and there's a new hot bar tender. So I got us some wings. So everybody can calm down. We can have some live at the blue wings. Right. So you come out with wings. I have wings. And you're eating. No, everybody. You know, you're doing like a rusty from Oceans 11. Can I can I snack on Corinne? Yes. I will. We have to verify we have to corroborate their stories. No, no, I think it's actually scary for him. If he walks outside and he sees and he sees his man. I think about how scared you would be. Yeah. Okay. So just a little sip. You what? As long as you still answer questions. Jamison comes out. The whole party comes out. I can stop anytime with Corinne with a knife to his back. This is I'm assuming away from the bartender that standing or the bouncer that standing outside. I'll say the bartender's gone. I got this is like in the alley behind the bouncer. So everybody comes out. You guys are in the alley. You've got Corinne by the throat. Yeah. Jamison's here and he's like, okay, you can let him go. He's just a patty. What do you like? What's this about? And I can for really at him, right? Oh, you don't he don't know nothing. I mean, I just I just hire him to hire his worst guys. That's it. He doesn't know anything. But can we trust him to be released into the wild? What if he says? No, let me friends out in town. Let's believe him. All you got to do is buy their stuff. I don't know if we should just murder everyone. I think we can let him go. What if we at least tie him up for the duration of our business in town? I'm using a whole person on him for right now. There you go. You want a whole perk? We can't let him go go. Yeah. You can't let him give us it. This is not running the show. Okay. Remember this is this is my home. I don't know. Are we coming back with a whole bunch of fucking mentality? Can we write them for real? Hey, listen, yes. You can roll them intimidate them. Roll to do you mess around? You get the fangs. Nine. That's a nine plus plus your charisma. Nine plus charisma plus two eight eight. Okay. And what do you want to say to him? Listen, what the fuck? We not go. She want to eat. What just happened? Oh, nine is 11. I can tell you. I shouldn't have agreed with that. No, we got to see. We got to be. It's an 11. How many of you see for everyone? My good. Too many needs. She want to eat you. Yeah. I want to keep you alive. Here's the plan. You I even hear a whisper that you talk to anybody about this. Lunch. Yeah. Roll also do intimidate for that for you. A million six plus charisma. Oh, off the chart. Off the charts, baby. That's what? Yeah. Um, you know, yeah, plus three nine. Okay. Okay. Like says more than a shitting himself. He is terrified. Like, excellent. Regardless of all this, like, I'm gone. You will never see me again. Do you let him go? Yeah. He immediately runs off as fast as he flies. So you're standing here with Jim. We're gonna see him again. All right. We're gonna regret letting him. We're gonna see him. We're gonna see him. We're gonna see him. We're gonna eat him. We are going to regret letting him. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So Jim is just like, all right, you ready? Are you ready to listen to me now? Yeah, to it. I find it. Yeah. Like, just talk your shit. Listen. You're stuck. I don't remember. What was this? Huh? What was this? Tell me it's my towel. Yeah. All right. Jim's got a lot of attitude from my fuckers around you. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. That is a good boy. That's a great good. That's a great one. This is my friend. I'm your, I'm your blood. Yeah. I've seen you in a long time. And you sent somebody to try to kill us. Don't talk about our friends. Just give us the fucking spill. Your stepfather, he's been on a tear. Not only has he been ruling this city, but he's trying to effectively change it forever. I don't know how. But it's not something like politics is one thing. We're talking about like, I'm not even of power. Is it one thing? Oh, the people are in this. The unmaking of something. It feels like that's what what's going on here. How's he trying to say? He's like a rosa gul like. Oh, I mean, just tricking effort. It feels like whatever he wants to do. Yeah. It's more than redlining. It's, it feels like an unmaking of a town that you grew up in. The only thing that he feels threatened by is what he's calling the old blood for some reason. And I can only assume that that's you because you're the only one that has a claim to this city left. Right. Since you don't care about that anymore, I've got to bring you back because your mother's in danger. She's not herself. She's not. She's not lucid. She's not the same that she's been in use. Is this like a say it in things like? Oh, grimoire tongue thing. Like actually under I don't know. I don't know what's going on. Oh boy. When you say she's not not herself. Is she thinking straight? Is she? No, she's not there. It's not her. She doesn't talk about you. She doesn't talk about the things that such a tragedy for the kingdom. Okay, quick, quick family meeting that doesn't. You're in stopping the story. Do he scurry and help your mom directly? Or do we go do that back cave thing we were supposed to do? Oh, it's tough. Well, part of me right now. I kind of want to pull an ocean's 11 is sneak in. Yeah. And save old daddies. Well, we got a plan. We could plan it. And we need to plan it. The back thing. Well, Talia, you make a good point. You say that. He's hosting a ball tomorrow. And is it a costume ball? Can I breathe? Can I breathe some more? How did you know that? Fancy dress. Fancy dress. She is host to this. But he's a Leo. We can wear a mask. He's inviting every powerful failure to ask if he could bring someone. We're taking your eye off a ball. We got to keep that thought. If we had to be a plus one, he's inviting every powerful family in the city. He wants to consolidate as much.
power as you can and get everyone to whatever cause he's trying to make. I know we should do this for this town poison. I don't need, I don't you could, but you can't get in. He's got the entire city under his thumb. If he knows you're coming, he'll have all of the city on top of the question. Operations seduce everyone with an invite. Yeah, possibly. We guess have plus one. We got this one. But here's become dates, but listen. Infiltrating invited us say it is crazy. We can get invited. Infiltrating this compound is going to be a lot more difficult. It's changed since you've left. There are guards. There are magical staves of protection. There are too many things to count. I'm not acknowledging our pivot introduction. True. You will need invitations. Yeah, legitimate ones. Right. Not for dreams costumes. Yeah. Well-prepared magic and spells. OK. OK. And a good layout of how this works. When is this again tomorrow? Our own night. God damn, but there's somebody that I know that could help. You know, he's one of the best forgers. I know he's a little shady and he's really difficult to work with. Dreams. This isn't the section. Yeah, his name is Bill Millman. What? Oh my God. Guys, we kill Bill. We kill Bill. We kill Bill. You kill Bill. Listen, so like, oh my God, we don't know. You're a plastic assassin. Wait a second. Wait a second. We got to let you know. You see? Here's a deal. Now listen. Now here's a deal. Here's a situation. Well, let you know something. We really tried. So, so, so here's a deal. We really tried. So here's a deal. It's very difficult. Bill's dead, but, but just listen, but listen, I want, before you get all incredulous with us, we had just come back from a really traumatic situation where our lives were hanging in the balance, because of you. And so because of you, and so you rather than send someone to communicate with us, you said someone to kill us. Yeah. And so we didn't know what we were supposed to do, but Bill's fucking dead. But guess what guys? I have the necklace of speak with the dead. Oh my god. Let's let's talk to Bill. Oh my god. I'll stand up. So, yes. Come on. You killed one of the best foragers. And. Yep. But you know what? I want to make a very big point. Hold on. He was a dickhead. Yeah. Right. And just to let you know, I'm sorry. I didn't know that criminals could be dickheads. Can't be count countless. You know something. Just tell you something real quick. Yeah. This reminds me of what happened after the baseball game, like a couple of people. You remember, like rather than, like, move on to try to give me, like, encouraging words so that I can play better than the next game. All right. All you did was get hung up. I remember. Okay. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Exactly. So I'm saying is, don't make that same mistake. Yeah. Don't get my old daddy dead. All right. So we can't. We can't undead him. Yeah. So. But I don't care how you move on. Your own, your only chance is to do it tomorrow night. All right. I need to get back. Yeah. He's expecting you dead. I need to find some way to prove that you're dead. Do you need a bag of body parts? Cause I know where you can find one. Really? You have one? I'll take that. Okay. Here's the co-check tab at the black rose tab. Which I definitely did not. Yeah. That I did not burn down. All right, Jim. Okay. Let's slow down. Let's spark up a little bit. I have an idea. Spark up. Why don't you, why don't you? That's a long bottle. Backdoor to the castle open. And we could just walk through. I will try my best. I will try to get that information to you if it has. But if you will know. Okay. If I leave the back door open for you. If I find some way to let you in. Yeah. There will be a. There will be a green lantern lit. On the south lawn. Okay. And black is day. How's handler. I would look. Yeah. Yes. All right. So to J get to be. Oh, Jim. You have anything else to say to him? I do. I do. I have another part of the plans. Okay. This is what we should do. Right. The entire team. Should walk through the back door. I should walk through the front door. Yeah. Ask me. Yeah. I think this is it. You will be killed immediately. Guys. Oh, I will not do that. Yeah. You will be killed. So he's going to kill me in front of. And so he's going to kill. No way. The law lost crown prince. He can't. The entire part. So we will kill you directly. But you will die. But remember, we didn't know what the deal was. By the way, this is. This is not like. Jimisin is saying this. He's not stating facts necessarily. He knows what he knows. Hey, Jimisin. Yeah. If we had like a necklace that could talk to dead people. Well, that'd be helpful inside of the situation with Bill Millen. Yeah. Probably. He's dead, right? Let me roll. Okay. I'm not. I'm not preventing you from doing anything. You know, do your green light back door help that you're going to try your best. Yeah. And we're going to go talk to a dead forger, I guess. We're going to the back cave to forge a plan and talk to the dead. Wonderful. Okay. So you guys go back to Bill Millen's place or. We got to retrieve the body. And then we go to the back cave. We're going to Bill Millen getting bill. Do we need to be at bills? We need his body. I mean, his body. You left his body at a shop. We have to get his body. We're getting bill. And then we're going to the back cave. Yes. Okay. So are you going to talk to him at the back? At the back cave. At the back cave. Okay. So you. All right. Don't worry about it. All right. There are so many questions. No, no. I am. So you go back to Bill Millen's shop. You take his body. Yeah. How are you going to like. Over the shoulder. I don't. Okay. Just out in the open for all to see. We're going to prop him up like this. Oh. Oh. Oh. Okay. I'm Fred Bill. Yeah. I'm going to need a performance check from the two people that are carrying him all the way. Well, I'm not carrying him. Oh, man. Ain't this in the medieval times. Don't shit like this happen all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't he also have a horse and carriage? Wait. Also, he's a smaller guy. Like, hey, man. You know, we had a little too much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can. You go. I can also use my reduce. My reduced spell. And like someone could like put him in their pocket. I feel like this is less interesting than whatever we would do with him back at the back cave. That's fair. All right. How about this? You get him to the back cave. Yeah. The horse and carriage. Okay. Okay. You guys enter the back cave. Chop. Yes. How do you remember this? Talia. Talia. How do you remember this place looking? Dead name him. 30. 30. 30. 30. 30. What are you doing? That's like. You crazy? Like. Wow. Talia. How do you fucking eat? I can't believe you would do that. Sorry. Dance your question. It's seen better days. The warmth of my master and his love is gone. All right. Okay. So you enter this place. So what it looks like. To me is. All Charles is so fucked in my head. I know. Like. It's an old yet elegant office. Learned with cobwebs clearly in a state of decay. All right. Office. Lots of like the wood of the desk has been like rotted for a while. Nobody's been there for quite a minute. On the desk you see notes of papers and research and things that he would have like gone out for missions and like people that he would have been looking for. But you know that he hasn't been the midnight major in quite some time. Yes. On the desk you can see a little piece of parchment that might have your name on it. Would you like to read it? Oh, wait. Do you want me to read this? Mm-hmm. Okay. Do I have to roll? No. Okay. But I'll tell you what it says. Okay. Talia from the midnight major. No, no. You're making it up. I believe in friendship. Right. You're awesome, you're hairless group. Okay. So you don't want to know what I have written for you. All right. Page two. You can read. Okay. Great. Great. It's basically. Hey, it's Bob. If you're reading this, I'm dead. And I've bequeased. I've bequeased you my midnight major armor. Bob. It's the end of the dark night rises. Yeah. Oh my gosh. And it's and it's and it's in our secret place that you can find. There's a quarter of it. Oh my gosh. And if you and roll the perception check. Roll the perception check. And then the credits. And then that's it. We never hope. You got to. I have a nine. I watch it. You got to go be Batman with nobody ever training you and like. It's like they do. Oh, very soon. Yeah. Right. He taught you how to throw one. Yeah. What? Very soon. Wait. So where's my perception? Perception. That will be under. Wisdom. Under wisdom. Okay. So after I got a nine minus one, that's like an eight. Okay. All right. So as you like observe. As you observe the like rotted bookshelves and like very dusty. Trapings of like this north wall, you can still remember. The spring loaded book. That opens up. Hell yeah. And you pull it. And in near pristine condition. This is basically like the elegant suit of an ninja. Hell yeah. It looks fucking. Is there a ninja mobile? There's no ninja mobile. Damn. This is amazing. Actually, you're wrong. I just checked the garage. This is. It's not all the boxes. Like. A ninja mobile. Yeah. I should know what they have. Right. They have a ninja mobile for you. And then like from the 60s, it's like a little side call. Yeah. Holy fist one. But yeah. Um, okay. So you have now have this magic is mentally imbued armor. Okay. Uh, did you want to speak to the now deceased?
Well, I it says I contain it contains two daily charges of speak with the dead. Yes, so I would like to talk to Bob first To tell him I miss him and then I will talk. Okay. Well Bob is like long since like died in the line of duty And like he's like oh do you need the corpse? Yeah, you need the corpse. The corpse isn't here All right, well roll wait, so I'm gonna talk to Bill then. Yeah, so you don't have to roll to speak with the dead because you just automatically cast it Okay, and basically what happens is the grandsomes of life and intelligence to a corpse you choose within range allowing you to answer the questions that you pose the corpse must still have a mouth and can't be undead The spell fails when the corpse target of the spell blah blah blah until the spell ends you can ask the corpse five questions The corpse knows only what it knew in life including the languages that it knew answers are usually brief cryptic repetitive and the corpse is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer Oh Bill can fucking keep lying So you know that but you want to cast it and ask We need we need to be able to forge the invitations if we need to ask simple questions about forging Does he know that we are the ones that killed him? I'm gonna just build know that a vampire it like I'm gonna go stand outside Well, I'm saying are we gonna have to like negotiate with him because he's fucking piss? No, no, no, he can only answer five questions then after the five questions are over He's does he know who's asking the questions meaning so he knows that the people who murdered him are the ones asking him for help Likely, yeah, so he has no incentives actually what the fuck is he somewhere in the netherworld I have disguise self Okay, so you want to show up like his old chick Yeah, oh, he's old guy You don't know who that is or what they look like Hey, wait, have a patch of a cool, right? We can show up Yeah, you thought you had us you fucking She disguised self show that somebody else. Oh, this is asking questions that they wouldn't ask whatever Okay, okay, yeah, I'm disguising myself as Patrick And he's not even gonna realize that he's being like grilled from a different plane He's gonna think he a Patrick or just in the land of the dead together. Okay, I'm gonna chat. All right, amazing Okay, so You want to do this? So this is a disguise self good and then I've got a role His wisdom in order to know whether or not he can see through okay, great So you cast the spell and then you're basically like you cast the spell and then you're gonna like all you guys are gonna clear out And you're gonna just gonna be disguising yourself as Patrick Yeah, yeah, yeah It's me up and you'll ask you'll ask those questions. Okay, so Okay, you're gonna do this great you cast it You're disguised everybody clear out What I'm done as like as he is like kind of regaining consciousness like his Eyes his ears hit like there's like green light emanating from his like head and chest and like he's being Lifted up into life and like he's looking around as if he doesn't really know where he is, but he's like And then he just like settles into the room and then it's just sitting there Okay, yo bill. It's me Patrick. Hello. You knew me from life and I have some five simple questions for you number one Where would I find The supplies I need to forge a royal invitation. Okay Okay, great Patrick So good to see you So it's not an answer. I Oh, yeah, the the the the place that we need to forge like we did an old jobs like that was that that's in the basement I have the I have the wardrobe that gives you any clothes that you can desire I've got a magical staves. What what do you need? I need Costumes for five people to make it convincingly into a royal suave Do we have those? Yes I need supplies to forge convincing royal invitations. Do we have those supplies? Yes, they are in my desk or no, they're in my drawer behind my counter ask about the magic that we need to get in. So you're whispering from outside of the door Yeah, but she's got great hearing. So I want to set scene. Okay, ask about the magic that we need to get in Like one of these like all into the castle until the cash And if five uninvited people wanted to get into the castle and they had the right invitations and the right clothing Do they need any other kind of magic to get in? Usually those invitations are magically enchanted and tied to whoever is Bound to them. So Yes, we have those They are and this is like a corpse We have those just write down the name of who you want to be on the paper And you will magically be them We have to kill five people. Yeah, two more questions. We have to kill five people Yeah, and they they have to have actually been invited. We need to take their place They're gonna know because of the magic Yeah, we can't make people up were they actually invited he said they have their There's not a question. I'm asking you. No, no, this is a house. I count. It feels like we can make people up And then we can enchant you using it to be tied to that thing But isn't the magic to vet that they were actually invited. Okay, hold on We got two more questions. So let's ask about the guest list. Yeah Yeah, tallie. Do you know what? How does this match with that? Okay, just talking Max, please continue with somebody talking just now Patrick are you alone? It's just you and me like the old times ready to guess I have a broke backs. It's terrible Oh, do the five people need to be existing people on the guest list? Or can we make up five names and magically encode them to the invitation? You can make up five names Can we one more question because really really make it count Are there any holes in this plane? You could How could this go wrong? Yeah, it's a good question Hey Bill Yeah, last one for you. What's up? Looking real great. I must say as ever. I feel really good. I hope I'm not dead Absolutely not. Is there any other any holes in this plan or any way this plan could go wrong that you can think of Hmm I think the best laid plans that we have had in our days of Adventuring. Yeah, classic classic. We've had yeah. Yeah We've always We've always maintained a good cover story And make sure that when you enter the wardrobe When you fight someone the clothes disappear and then he slumps so ground Okay, people close disappear. Okay, so we're getting costumes from this wardrobe, but if we fight someone then we're naked Not necessarily. Oh, we're just like unenchanted from whatever clothing we were wearing Oh, do we become us like rags again? We're not we're Cinderella people see us as our people after one fight after one fight if we fight people It's gonna be tough for us because we like so we like to fight he's so He's telling us that when we fight the clothes disappear. Yeah Oh, he's asking us to make sure that the clothes disappear. No, he's telling us that we have to do the whole thing We got to do a clean Unless you or if you get no fight you got to know that you're fighting tough for us. Oh, excuse me Okay, so By by order of that plan that means you go back to Bill Millman's house or to his shop go get all the supplies and then prepare for going to the ball Uh-huh great All right, so you go back to Bill's shop You find the papers that you need Basically like any sort of like pen that you can write with anything that you can uh Write down it kind of just like Glow's orange with like a like a bit of a fit and like as you write like this invitation. What was all in Bill's shop clothes the supplies Well, this is why so when you like as you search give me a perception check everybody Damn I got Okay, so you thoroughly search the uh the basement of uh of Bill's shop Next to the teleportation stay if you see like some random boxes full of like destroyed supplies But you also see a wardrobe as you look into the wardrobe. It looks as if it is a massive hallway Of like infinite amounts of clothes. Mm-hmm. You have found that if you simply walk into it and walk out You are wearing somebody else's clothes. Oh, yeah. Oh, well, they be like Properly connected to our cover stories It seems that if whatever clothes he can imagine wearing yeah, he is where there's a magical enchantment on the space. Oh daddy Yes, what are you wearing to the ball? Are we going in as a group like do we want to have a cover story that connects us or individuals? We need to go at his individuals as we're not around suspicious. Yeah, I think so yeah So we're going as individuals, can I bring in scotch? Is this a pet friendly? It should be.
they're their own costume yeah if you would you like to put scotch into the into the corridor and like see what comes out absolutely okay you get a plus you got the invitation you put you put him in the wardrobe you close the doors yeah you open them he's wearing a little bow tie oh remarkable hey I walked in there and I came out looking like zero oh okay usually zero fights people so what so what but it's like an arrow flint like a well I like the Zorro that came on when I was a kid yeah black white Zorro black on white Zorro like him okay that's how he looks like that's what you know with the flares okay wait you know me man like a little light slow flow you know some little loose got my chest out got my chain on me for me all right and people see it just some regular day it's some light yeah everybody else what do you what you're you're wearing like a nice cocktail dress I don't know I walked in and now I walked out and I look like Darth Vader with the saver yeah you look like you're gonna you're gonna dress to a black tie ball but it's a costume as Darth Vader yes and yes and I'm just no no I'm just I'm just I'm just ending to make sure that that's what you're doing yes so you got a cape on yeah yeah okay all right and and max oh um I look like that scene in brown soakers Dracula work Gary oh man oh hell yeah the top hat and all that grace is the grace it hell yeah yeah okay great man he was the man and that's so great this is a lot of party then I think I'm I'm basically excited and I fever now you two okay so like white suit white suit okay like the mill bottles with the heels join all right it's a disturbing movie when you rewatch it when you when you walk and by the way when you walk into that wardrobe yeah the book basically like it it feels as if it's shouting at you but when you walk out it's silent what was it shouting to me nothing it's just screaming oh that's uh uh Jesus Christ can you scream John's mean something oh my god you have a translation spell the book does not shout I would just like to say it doesn't audibly shout the book does not shout it winks it offers answers and a voice to sound almost like your own haunting um I think that the the magical wardrobe should give me an outfit that matches scotches right because we're together so a single bow tie James Bond yeah now I'll be naked other right right right yeah no no okay so so we await your fan art yeah so it takes a taste the suit Vader Zorro Dontable time yeah Gary oh man yes I'm doing a summer a summer suit like a a nice a series like this one maybe laser okay no shirt underneath damn oh maybe how many buttons like like down to the like one right no the shoes look like a blinch at like db oh yeah oh she's eight but she got to be comfortable I'm wearing high tops yeah high tops yeah okay great all right high top team high top okay so the clothes that you are now wearing basically are illusions transmog vacations of the clothes that you are currently wearing I have a question have all of you have all of your weapons on you the magic armor is Talia wearing the magic armor under the Vader suit yes okay great so everything that you have before you put you stepped into that wardrobe you still have on you but all of your weapons are obfuscated nobody can tell that you're carrying any of these things okay but the moment that you decide to get into a confrontation the illusion breaks has there ever been a cooler Russian nesting doll then a Batman inside of Darth Vader pretty cool pretty cool pretty cool but this armor camp here's my heart still heart broken over my master of for your old master I'm born right now so you have your invitations you have your your costumes mm-hmm anything else you want to do cover story yes we are cover stories so you guys are going individually or as a group well we should walk individually should we pair up at least yeah like like each well you have your plus one I do and then we got a date yeah oh oh Jamie you're bringing the bartender bringing the bartender you're bringing the bartender sounds like a terrible idea you have to backfire to a high worst idea I'll be honest with you guys a lot of stuff is on the line here my family stuff I mean are we killing Leo he's the Christopher Waltisante love this group he's the Jesse like Leo got a dime he's bringing a girl he just met last night to a very nice moment of our life I'm doing something dumb I'm a little hungry because you didn't let me eat that that card sharp guy yeah wait you have to get two courses because this girl white so you're gonna you're gonna get her I mean we didn't roll for that we didn't roll for white let's roll for white roll for milk it's the summer roll for milk yep there you go how are you gonna get two percent best of both worlds you gotta go now you tripping so are you going individually or as a group we got to go individually as to not what I turn Leo okay I want to turn Leo into a vampire yeah Max couldn't at least eat the date and then you know he's gonna have sex man man you know he knows that if you know that he's gonna want to have sex you gotta go right that's the part that's the bad thing she's dead I I didn't ask if I did out for a little summer milk yeah she's gonna she's what you killed did she release roll for that yeah no you actually could so you're okay so in my mind you transform into a bad room in the conversation of planning this yeah you're ruined in the game bro I'm too I'm so into this shit it's fun like you're ruined what you roll what you are so wait no for real you want to go and like you want to go yeah so there's like we need him to focus you gotta find out her address from Leo this is not him she met him but no she doesn't know where she lives I got that piece of paper yeah from who yeah so you just he's like hey give me your give me your address I can I can I roll and have one of my animal friends just follow her sit okay can't I follow her sent as a vampire and just say that you killed the woman that just you did 15 so I did so you just man you're say you're you're saying I mean we all know that Leo is going to find another there's like 80 million he's gonna we gotta get there and he's gonna start break dancing in the middle of the party for dumb shit he's gonna do something I'm not taking I'm taking it seriously right all right I'm coming back and I would say and um where was I don't worry about it actually don't worry about the girl you could just turn her in which case she would be uh you'd be an asset and then you would be able to have control over you're gonna you're gonna get you're gonna get yeah you like hold on Max Max you have one option you have two options and kill her or make turn her to a vampire and make her your like and then we can make a stand out we can make her stand outside we're about to stand watch and that's how yeah I'm glad you're glad you're glad you're glad you're glad you're just this right you just stole Jimmy's chick they all there they they all happy he can fuck a vampire yeah but she's gonna be like okay so it's a her now that's true so you now have a fledgling uh huh yeah okay now we all need cover you don't mean you could have been a vampire but you rejected that so I should go for an vampire okay can I I would like to use mage armor on oh daddy before we go in I have the ability to if I touch a willing creature and I think oh daddy would be in this in this case who is not wearing armor mm-hmm a protective magical force surrounds until the spell ends okay hot spell ends if the target Don's armor if you dismiss the spell as an action okay so it says the last yeah I want to give oh daddy extra protection eight hours to this is powerful so I use a mage armor what time is it because this is the ball is tomorrow is it already tomorrow I mean you could wait until we're going to wait until we're about to go I'm assuming that gave you time to kill and turn we're crazy what's her name what's her name what's her name you don't even remember her name Leo never told you never gave us the name Leo you know I mean she wrote it down on the piece of it uh Jesse the vampire Jessica yeah we're gonna we're gonna keep it moving it's the next day it's the evening you are making your way to the party uh there's a there's a there's a lot there's a line of uh like of you know party goers that are all elegantly dressed waiting as they are being checked in via their invitations you also see a green lantern on the south lawn oh yeah but do we need the part because we got a core story but that invitation what do we think do we think that's like an indicator from jimisin not just that the back door so open but like well that's right I got you it's it's it's it's gonna be a safe or what if someone found out about jimisin's plan and or is it bullshit yeah yeah it's in another trip I can't wait to see you see a green the green guys look at the green I'll just say noted we guys did such a great job where the party just gonna be great there we go oh all right so we're at the party there's a line that you see to get in it's a
palatial city estate, okay Like elegant like streamers that are like adorning this like big city mansion. Can I say not? No, not streamers. Oh, it's not Mafia phone. No the Like you could hear like bustling music inside. Yeah, there seems to be like dozens of people like just clamoring to get in here Jesse so Jesse. Oh, yeah, you so you're bringing Jesse. Jesse. Yeah, you're your job Stand by the back door Just keep watch out. Okay, so that's that this estate is like a city block So she's gonna walk all the way around towards the back. Yeah, and basically keep watch and where she's a vampire So she could be a bat so she could she patrol you can you can send her flying around you can do you Jesse? Yeah, bat Okay, and then just like kind of patrol areas. Oh, yeah, do I do I don't know that she's been turned on the guy Am I waiting for my date in the front? Yeah, you've been stood up. I've been stood up tough All right, so you guys enter you are you guys gonna enter the queue to say get into the party. Oh, we're queuing all right great So give me the order in which you first approached the the bouncers for this party Here's I think it should be two in front to him back. Yeah, oh daddy in the middle Yes to in front to him back on dad in the middle. Okay, great. So we are going to there's gonna be like three city guards that are like Flanking the like main entrance to this gate the one like one of them's gonna ask you for an invitation invitation Miss so the two of you Hit hand that he puts it like in front of like this Purple glowing flame. Yeah, and it like reflects back this orange light and he's like Perfect want it welcome in oh, yeah, and then Oh daddy. Oh daddy comes invitation great Pritz it up to the orange light It flickers and then he looks at it for a second And then Perfect looks at you It's like welcome in sir But you through and then Leo did you did you a little Elvin girlfriend show up? Uh, she didn't she didn't she might as do me. Oh, you know all these Elvin ladies, you know I really thought I found the one And then he looks at your In flame he's actually like trying me because he could hear this Don't worry. We've got we got we have we have plenty And he tries to go for a nap She was the one I don't think I don't think I ever Oh So you guys enter it's an elegant walk walk up to the uh state. This is all very familiar to you You remember the yard. You remember this big open gate. My effect is kind of getting to them. Oh daddy You need a moment I'm affected. I'm okay. Thank you Focus is always friendship and I find that very sweet So you walk in and it is Gorgeous, but oh daddy when you walk in it feels like a garish violation Nothing that you see in this like Gorgeous estate is ever what it was before. Yes, everything's been remodeled the mirrors are gone the The colors in the in the house are all completely redone. It's like Hill Valley when Biff took over Yeah, damn I believe you're will of the many in it. I pretty much yeah So basically when you see you see this you're kind of disgusted and all of these rich and affluent families that you mainly knew of but like Only his names and in passing are now Completely occupying this polatial thing that you once called home You see the dance floor with dozens of elegantly dressed people Dancing conservatively we'll say um you see a very elegant balcony overlooking it And you see a long hallway that leads up to some long staircases which you believe to be remember to be both the like bedrooms and the Quarters in which like you once grew up in should we find your mom? Yeah, you can There there are several things that you remember and places that you remember visiting that you think would do Be of interest to you in this party everybody roll a perception check 17 19 17 17 16 10 10 okay So in the course of you like observing and like just casually walking around this party you see Some servants that are walking Downstairs to what it seems to be something underneath the dance floor probably like towards the basements like you know that there were like Um, the scullery like not sculleries, but like there was basically like the kitchen area servants quarters stuff like that But scullery Okay, it just sounded menacing Like skulls were there scullery made uh Like you see it like a suspicious amount of things being brought in like more so than you would ever like know for a regular party to be On the balcony you see a beautifully dressed very handsome very debonair man that is your stepfather Holding court in an elegant dress Not dress in an elegantly dressed fashion he's talking to if he wants he can you know what fuck it happy practice wearing a beautiful dress Good for a beautiful dress looks amazing uh He's holding court above kind of just observing things And then you see Two guards Fashioned outside of that staircase Clearly were Nobody is supposed to be but you don't know why guards are guarding that section of the house That's never familiar to you So you have three things that you can look to do you could look to confront your stepfather on the balcony You can look and investigate what's going on in servants quarters or you can talk to the guards Oh boy Feels too soon to go right to step down We need more information. Well the job is to get the mom out of the house. Have to check on mom first. Yeah, right So that's yet and I don't know what to do Or you always go to the servants orders. I've been the service orders. That's where the information Yeah, okay, so you all want to go or do you want to like divide and conquer? Do you want to go to different do we need somebody remember the fire didn't work out But do we need somebody to set a distraction just in case it all goes wrong. So here's here I did notice that um you said that they were dancing conservatively So maybe I pull a foot loose on the Okay, wait, wait, can we actually change the music to full loose like can we call it a chance? Well, you do have a bard That's right. We do No wait, can we do why I show them some rock music up there? You play you play full loose on that bitch And you start going crazy. They're gonna lose you try to play some Johnny be good Someone that's a cause of distraction. Yeah, someone has a great idea. Yeah, we need a distraction It's to the log cabin me to earth and wood a living country boy named Johnny be good And for some reason an amazingly dressed gray suited Vampire ish looking but nobody can say for sure Person jumps on the stage Starts playing with the band, which is usually just like liars and like drums and stuff You're kidding. I love things on a Johnny be good And roll a performance check for me. Oh, it's gonna be fantastic It's a nine But plus charisma. Yeah, 12 12. Okay. Okay, so For some reason you somehow convinced the band to join in on with you. Yeah, watch me for the genius you get like you get like 50% of the room. Yes Yeah, hell yeah, I'm jamming under the sea. Yeah, let's help like it's Not necessarily a distraction, but it's a shift in the room that people are like actually like kind of having a good time Yeah, it's kind of turn it up a little bit. Tell you what a great. Amazing. So you too are up there making sure That everybody's having a good time upstairs. Who's going downstairs and service quarters The rest of the party you're party you three. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. I don't know if I want Leo to come. I'll go Scotch and I will come with you. Yeah, we can't He's gonna try to fuck a kitchen when We should have Leo stay and watch No, Leo. No, I got passes out of trace. They can't they can't see me. Okay. If we need if we need if we need to get to the mom We find the information where the mom is at I can pass a lot of trace and get to her without anybody seeing me Okay, so you want to try that on the guards? Well, we don't know where she is yet. Well, I mean you got I have a question you got an upstairs way to where oh, no, no, I think we split up. Yeah, yeah, yeah does I have a question. Does anyone know where she is like is this knowledge that can be attained if we find the right People if you want to ask is she in hiding or has someone you don't know what you like ask around One of my spells
in my new book is ask the thing behind the door for bidding clues of contact of the plane, the party is stuck or needs a truth. But then it says no mortal knows. And I don't know if that applies here. So I think that me and whiskey should go to the scullery and then you and Leo should go and then if he looks like at any fucking point that he is going to flake out that you should just bite him. Yeah. Like you know what I mean? Now I'm up on stage right now. But I have it a multitasking. I'll keep an eye. I really got I really shouldn't give you guys like Bluetooth speakers just so you can talk to each other during the party. Oh, can we have a can we do a smell? There's a there's like a stone that can do that. But you know, we don't have that. I just found a stone in my power shut up. What? What does it do? All right. Shush. Is it blue? I have one for all of us whiskey who's going to go away? I think that you should go just exploring looking for your mom and I I should ask questions because I don't want anyone to learn who you are. It's too risky. Right. Okay. But maybe we should flip because I have something called detect magic. And I have to assume that magic is being used to hide the mom. Yeah. So what if I I'm smaller. I'm three five. What if I just start like, Oh, I need a bathroom or something like whatever, right? And just use detect magic and see if that can lead me to since it lasts for 10 minutes. Okay. I think I can move pretty quickly and see if I can detect magic being used in a certain quarter. And that can at least allow us to like narrow our search. I have a question. The wing of the house where the mother might be. If I use pastel at risk and I just use that for myself, we're going to use other people with that. That is just you. Damn. Can I have a question? I have a question. Are any of my pets or any of the horses or animals that were around when I left? Are they still there that I could talk to them 15 years later? Well, if it's a horse, or if it's a small drop, we don't have an animal that remembers the mother sent and can follow. Well, the animal. Okay. Hold on. Well, could not to that point. Could I just talk to any animal that's around? You could ask that animal about the stables. Yeah. I want to go to the stable. Okay. Oh, Daddy's going to go to the stables. You're going to go to the bathroom and detect magic. You're going to pass the rats. Well, I can speak with small bees. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'll ask the rats as I wander as I use detect magic to try to find the right wing. I'll ask the rats as I go. Yeah. Okay. Why not? All right. So I'm detecting magic. I'm going to pass my own trace. You're going to talk to my mom. I need to find where she is. And then I can pass a lot of trace. No one wants to talk to the help. I mean, somebody can talk to me. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, you're on the dance floor. I guess I got to talk to. No, I got to talk to, I got to talk to the, I got to talk to the help. All right. All right. I'll do it. I'll do it. And then I'll use detect. No, no, no, no. If Leo swaps into the dance floor, yeah, shakes us, Holly and that will be themselves with the women of the party. That's a distraction. So you hand it off to him. Yeah. You're dancing, Leo. That's where you, that's where you're going to be thrilled. And we can't act. You can mingle with so many. The role is to ruin the game. All right. Talia and I are heading down to the, the quarters. And we're going to talk to the staff. And I think we should start with the, the, the maids. Yes. Okay. Here's the question. Where can't you clean? Right? Okay. Because they're not going to want the mother who is really like a prisoner in her own home. Okay. To be exposed to people who could glean. Okay. So you, so you like pass through the party. Yeah. Quarter to made and you just said hi. You walk into what appears to be like the kitchen. And then you pass through the kitchen. Yeah. Into like this downstairs. I needed a snack. I'm sorry. I've got my, my familiar Scotch here. We, he's Scotch needs some milk. And I was like, I'm, I mean, like, do you like a wheel of cheese? You know, we've been traveling for a long time. We're here. We're explorers. We have a thirst for knowledge, a love of found family. And we're here to learn about the land. Nobles. Um, remember that. And, you know, we have a just a real passion for Star Wars and Beach attire. Um, okay. And Darth Vader. Um, and if you help us, we will cause a worker's revolting rise up against the crisis and put the one true prince. Wow. We can't say that. You know, but for a party, a party of this, this, my God, the guest list. It's like the droid uprising. How many, uh, how many guest rooms did you need to, did you need to prep? How many people are staying over? Yeah, any rooms that weren't available? Should we talk to the oldest help first? Could they remember? Okay. I got it. I got to give, I got to do something. Okay. Go ahead. You're asking the maid all of that. Yep. Okay. Yeah. Uh, hello. Uh, yeah. Yeah. That's a lot. Um, the, the one place is that I know that I can't clean. Um, she's like kind of like, uh, like, kind of struck because like of what she, what she believes to be a very rich person and like, her social better is like starting to interrogate her. You guys have any like charisma you want to, I know. I guess, you know, instead of a charisma, uh, made, he has a noble coin. Oh, free yourself. Why forget one of those, uh, and she, instead of like one of our goals, I'm sorry. I believe it's right. But not that right. Right. And she, okay. So you give her a homage. Gold start with like 10. Yeah. Okay. She, she is like, effusively thankful. And like, maybe we should have started like so much. I, I, I mean, the only places that we aren't allowed to go to are the, the, the warehouse in the back. And like, that's just, we, we just drop off boxes and we don't really know what they're supposed to do. But nobody can go in their warehouse. Uh, as far as the, like where the CDs are, as far as the servants, as far as the rooms upstairs. I mean, there's, there's, there's our, there's my lady's chamber. There's, uh, my lord's chamber. And then there's the guest rooms. That's, that's all. And where is my lady? We, we were looking forward to making our introduction. But we didn't, we didn't see her at the bowl. Clutch. Uh, I'm not at liberty to say my lady, um, spell her, but to say you got to say more drastic measures. We have to do a spell. Oh boy. Let's see, um, okay, enemies or group chasing or blocking a path, the party needs chaos, backup, or a terrifying distraction. Enemies need to be held down and place for slowed down. You don't matter like a hypnotist. That like, to the cloud, cloud thoughts. What have you loved that? So can I use that again? How much time has passed? It's been a day. It's been a day. I'm going to detect thoughts again. Okay, great detect thoughts again. Um, it's like you can easily see, you can see his plane is day in her mind that, uh, Odin's mother is has stayed in her room for weeks. So she's in the room. Weeks and is currently there. Okay. We need to free air. Can we see which room? Well, it's her room. The lady's chamber. Okay. Yeah. It's frankly, it's hubris to keep her in her own room. Right. So they're not ready for us. Okay. So you found out what you need. They're not ready for us. So I'm going to cut to O Daddy. Let's do that. All right. Right now. You're investing in it. So you could recognize your mother's horse? Well, I have to, I have to cast the speak with animals to find which horse is her. Correct. Okay. So I will. You don't need to roll. You just, you just cast it. I cast a spell. Read off what it says. It says you gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration. It's 10 minutes long. The nine minutes is the, I don't know if you heard. Yeah. Okay. So the knowledge and awareness of many beasts is limited by their intelligence. But at minimum, beasts can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever they can perceive or have perceived within the past day. You might be able to persuade a beast to perform a small favor with you. Okay. For you at the GM's discretion. Great. Amazing. Okay. All right. So you, there's a stable of like three horses. Okay. So I roll up on the most immaculate stable, which is clearly the King's horse. Okay. So you, you, you, you want to find the King's horse? I want to find the King's horse. I'm not sure which one will be the Queen's horse, but I want to find a King's horse. Okay. So I'm going to talk to the King's horse. All right. So you approach one. Yes. And it's just standing there. Let's hear that. Let's hear you speak some horse. Okay. Okay. And to end to end to the, and to the horses that are speaking, it sounds like what are you, what are you trying to say? I was doing what's going on. Yep. What the horses just talk like? Are you? Are you? Are you? Are you? Are you? Would you happen to be the horse of the King? Well, are you? Nice. Yeah. Yeah. With the peanut butter and the, yeah. You are, I have to say, a mighty steed. Oh, thank you. Oh, like Patrick. Well, I'm like Patrick. Yeah. Super mighty. And like, if the King were going to choose any horse, will clearly be you. Well, thank you. Which horse around here might be the horse of the Queen? Oh, that's messing that extra me. Oh, thank you very much. I'm sorry you have to miss the party, but what party? Never mind. Okay. Let's make sure I go up and talk to him. Okay. All right. Talk to him. When was the last time the Queen rode you? I hear the
the Queen's horse. Oh, no, he's not. Yeah, it's a lady. Is it a lady horse? Yeah, best. Do women always ride lady horses? Yeah, that's bestie. That's true. She has it with many years. Years. Oh, no. That's tough. Oh, my goodness. That I find that hard to believe because from my childhood, what I remember is that, oh, I can't say that. I find what I hear is that the Queen loved nothing more than to take long pastoral rides throughout the countryside. She doesn't do that anymore. That is true. She doesn't. She's been in her room for so long. This is really hard. Ever, ever since a few years ago, her husband has been unruly, saying different languages, things I don't understand. Oh, God, I kill him. Speaking to the horses and rough languages, demonic tongues, planes that I don't understand. Uh-oh. She's not herself. Is her husband abusive to the animals around here? Oh, sorry. Someone, not to me, but I've seen him. We must kill him. We have to. At the jeopardy of saving his mom. Just so I know, right? Approximately how many animals are here on this state? I'm talking pigs, cows, horses, chickens. I mean, not that how many animals are killed? I think they're getting lost. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. How many animals are here? There were ones many. Now there are a few ones. Now they're on the us. And are you know, those seeds ready to rise up against your oppressor? Yeah, how many horses are there? Just that's three. Ah, they were fucked. Okay. Hey, don't have the numbers. Guess what I have the numbers. Some oats that I made up that I managed to swipe on my way here. Have these oats. We have apples. And I wish that they go crazy. The horses love it. They love the else. They love. There you go. There you go. It's been so long since we've had a proper meal. What a guy. You're welcome. And I will be back for you. Wonderful. Sounds like we got a way. We cut back to Leo on the dance. Do I know that she's up in the bedroom? You don't know that we need a way to share all this information. Yeah, we need a way to share the information. I think we have to. I think it's group dancing. Yeah. It's a keep it. It's a keep it shuffle. All right. Now I'm very disturbed. Right. But I didn't come back to the party though. And you guys got right. Let's be right. Okay. And then I'm also going to be by you. Okay. Okay. Great. Keep going. Okay. So we learn. So we are dancing and sharing all of our information. Yeah. You re re re re re re can't all that information. So we learned. We learned that she is in her own quarters. Right. We learned something suspicious about a warehouse that the servants are not allowed to go to. So while Odadi's mom might be in her quarters, not the warehouse, something is in the warehouse that we need to deal with. I think he's now what is the. There's a snake in it. What's the appearance? Poison the waterfall. Right. What's the big? Do we get the mom and get out or. But there's also the missing the dead animals, the missing animals. And that weird little nugget, which you have to share with us about all of the different languages. Yeah. Is King Larry also in sourcehold in some way. So here's the situation here. It really makes no sense to go get mom right now because what does freeing mom do us? We need a way to get out after that. Because if we free mom, then mom, if she just become one of our group, wait, wait. I mean, you don't want to hang with your mom. I do, but like there's a bigger fish. There's a bigger fish. Still in peril. There's always a bigger fish. I can envision. I can make your mom invisible and get her out if you want. But where we got to go? It seems like there's a deeper sort of situation here. I can get your mom out and have Jesse escort her elsewhere. How many of us have this ability? Wait, wait, wait, wait. We want to do. We want to do. We want to do up one up to free mom and the other as one up to the way. Okay. Who has a visibility? I have it. You have it. Who else has it? I don't have a visibility. Okay. We're using a visibility on each other. We're sneaking into the warehouse. We're going to find out. We're going to re-commission to the warehouse. Fuck my plan to get mom. You can use a visibility as someone else. Yeah. Okay. So, um, she wanted to use a visibility on the mom. So you got to go get mom to get Jesse out. Well, then you guys got to split up and Talia and Talia. And I need to make, I can only make one person invisible. They have to go to the warehouse alone. Wait, who has a visibility? I do. And you do. Yeah. Okay. Well, you have a visibility. You got to use it on mom. And then you guys, since guy go to the warehouse, because you need Talia in case it goes, what? Yeah. But only one of us can be invisible. I think, right? All right. No, no, no, no. I can use it. A creature you touch. You can also touch yourself. Oh, that's what I talk about. I do. I touch myself. Indeed. Final. Anything the target is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it is on the target's person. Spell ends for a target that attacks your castle. I also have spider climbs, so I can climb on one out. There you go. Oh, get read that sheet. These are all my spells. Yeah. Well, not climb on the ceiling. You can. Okay. You got to discreetly do that. I'm going to disguise myself, which I can do again. Yeah, I know. Okay. Ooh, I can as a member of the household staff. Yeah. So that I can go upstairs. Okay. Roll a wisdom check for me real quick. I would love to do that. I'm so smart. I figure this. I figured it out. Okay. Okay. This is all gonna work. Okay. That works. Okay. Plus your bonus. Um, two. Okay. Well, Matt. So you know that this is going to break the clothing spell that you have right now. That's not true. We are fighting not magic. That has a magic, though. But it's can't get a cancel out the magic that you've already put on yourself. What the hell? Man. So we just use magic to talk to the god damn fucking horse. So now he's literally using the blue daddy. No disguising. Oh, he's literally changing your clothes. If I use passes out of tracer, my damn, no, no, no, you're fine. Okay. Okay. So you gotta go get him. I'm shoot. I gotta go get him. He's dead. I've been a great soldier. This entire time. It's calm down. It's calm down. Incredible. Just hope there's no women on the way up there. By the way, I hope that you don't take a liking to my mom too much. I don't trust it. Yeah. Let's go five mom. Okay. I figured out I'm using my invisibility power on Talia. Okay. So Talia can go the way where I said, I am on myself casting minor illusion. Okay. So I will basically look like the landscape that Talia is moving past and we will both be able to get to that not cancel out her call thing. It's an illusion. It's an illusion. It's not technically changing my clothes. Okay. Now, depending on what you guys see at the warehouse, you gotta let me know because if need be, we have to fuck this party. I can speak to Swalbi. I can send a rat with a message to you. Or can you send a hot bartender as our flying back? That's true. I want to do that as well. Now, if this all goes bad, what I'm going to do is send all the fucking horses into the middle of the party. Okay. All three to horses to disrupt the fucking party. And then we blow this whole thing up and then we have to escape in the melee. Okay. Okay. Yeah. First things first, we can use my book to escape. We're getting mom. That's without a trace. That's not a trace. All right. Great. Read that off for me real quick. I'm a join a local D&D leak. We have this is already said. We have, but this is fun. Let's just do this more. Yeah. You'll just do this more. All right. Avail of shadows and signs radiates from you, masking you and your companions. I asked about the best black campaigns. You said no. I didn't read this part. You said it. Oh, Daddy, do you want to come with us? For the duration of the creature, you choose within 30 feet from you, including yourself, has a plus 10 bonus to dexterity, stealth checks, and can't be tracked except by magical means. Yeah. A creature that receives this bonus leaves behind no tracks or traces of its passage. It's not necessarily invisible. Right. But if you want to like these are not the drugs you're looking for. Yeah. Yeah. This is basically like a Jedi mind trick slip away from somebody in a conversation. If I cast it before I get the mom, right? Will she be enveloped into all the past? Okay. Great. Okay. Yeah. So then do we think it's a bad idea and this lasts for one hour and mind you, this is a concentration spell. So what you have to do is basically as you're casting it, you have to focus your mind on this spell and cannot be distracted. So you know what I'm gonna do. They're gonna be daddy. How how does your mom? She looks really good. Yeah. Think like Halley Berry at 60. That's why the kingdom was always up and hours over her and stuff like that. Right. Okay. So doomed. So the first thing you got to do. It might be over. So it's Leo and right? No. We're on the way to the warehouse. They're on the warehouse. They're rescuing mom. First, you got to get past these guards. Are you going to what are you going to say to them? They're welcome.
they're right at the thresholds of the stairs. - It's pass without whatever, right? - It's gotta, it's gotta, where's the bathroom at? I heard the bathroom was right there. I got a good use of that. - And then you, and roll for, I guess this would be 13, I got a plus. - And so then you have a plus 10 bonus to Stealth. - Okay. - So 13 plus, yeah, no. So, okay, basically, like what the guards will see is like you briefly come into their site and they're just like, hey, I just gotta use the bathroom. And then, gone, and they're like, the fuck? And they don't notice anything else. - No, there's nothing. - Right. So you walk up the stairs, you see three doorways. And then a guard station that one of those doorways. - Right, you won't, okay, so we know which one it is. - Right, right, okay. So, which one do you wanna approach? Obviously, I'm guessing the one with the guard. - The one with the guard, I don't imagine. - And you would like to say something, do something? - Hey, big dog, I heard the bathroom in there. Can we go use the restroom? We're gonna work the first time. - And he's like, oh, there's no bathroom here. That's downstairs. - Well, somebody told me it was in here. And I heard it was around, take 'em out. - No, no fighting in our pool, you know what I mean? - That's right, that's right, that's right. No, but I heard this one had the good one. It had a bidet in there. And I'm like, you know what I'm saying? Y'all, y'all got one ploy in here. So I really need to use the restroom in the bathroom. - You're gonna try to grism of that out of it. He's really not going, he's not going for it. - He's like, again, this is not the bathroom. - You're gonna have to go all the way in. - Can I hit Charm person on them? - All right, you're there as well? - Yeah, the three of us. - Oh, yeah, sure, go for it. - Oh, then why is Leo talking? (laughing) - You can, anybody can chime in if they're there. - Oh, Daddy, do you have anything you want to say as someone with inside information on the palette? - Are you also here? - I'm with you guys. - Yeah. - Okay, so all of you are there. - I have us, yes. - Okay, so you're acting like he's in the bathroom. You're gonna charm him? - Oh yeah, I have to charm him. - You're there? - I guess I'm there. - Yeah, Leo's taking a shit. Hopefully no one hot is around. - He deadlocks his eyes on you. - I'm doing Charm person. - Charm person. - It's okay. - 10 plus three. - 10 plus three, so that's a 13. - Successful Charm person. - Okay, yeah, that's a successful Charm. - Yeah. - He's like, you guys need the bathroom? - Yes. - Okay, please. - I mean, it's downstairs, but I don't know why you would wanna come in here. - Oh, I heard this was a really nice one though, with those Japanese toilets. - I mean, it's the world that's showing you here. - It's this. - Excellent Charm. - It's just the old lady in her bedroom. He opens the door. - Okay, thank you. Oh yeah, we'll just use this one we'll be so quick and quiet. - Okay, everybody roll for stealth. - Oh, brutal. - 15. - 19. - 19. - Two. - Two. - I'm plus two. - And stealth. - So that's a four, it's not great. - Well, no, you got a plus 10 from the bonus so it passed without a trace. - 14. - 14. - Nice. - We're crushing this to be honest with you. - So he's like, well, wait, where'd you go? And then the moment that he kind of realizes what's happened, you've closed the door behind you and you're in the room. - And is he gonna sound an alarm? - No, he's forgotten. - Oh my God. - Jedi mind trick. - You don't really know, 'cause you're in the room in the door's class. - I charmed him and we Jedi mind tricked him. - In the room, you see Odadi's mother. - She's hot. - Basically staring blankly into a mirror. - Oh, dear. - And when they do that. - Brushing her hair seemingly infinitely. - Like, bitches. - This is sad. - This is sad. - What do you want to do? - You got one of our healing potions on her. - I know what I want to do. Will it work? I know what I want to do. I want to drop my disguise. - Yeah. Let her see her. - So you want to break the illusion of your hair? - We can't wait until we're free? - No. - I want to, 'cause I want to break her spell. - Uh-huh. - And I feel like the only thing that can do it is if I drop my disguise. - Okay. - So you will willingly drop your disguise. - Uh-huh. - You'll approach your mom. What do you want to do? - Well, no, she's just, she's sad. - This is why I'm gonna do it. - She's gonna see you in the mirror. - So she's in the mirror herself, right? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So she's looking at herself. So the shot is from behind her. - Right. - Yeah. - You don't see me coming to frame. - Uh-huh. - I was like in context. We like, we come back and as we come back, we see me basically come into frame, right in front of her to block her version of herself in the mirror. Instead of seeing her reflection. - Oh, oh, yeah. - The next thing that you see in the mirror the next thing that she sees is me. - Okay. - Beautiful. - Beautiful. - Okay, that's, that's beautiful. Okay. - Well, without breaking her gaze, and you can just try. - Beautiful. - And the man and the moon. (laughing) - Without, without breaking her gaze, she's just like, she kind of just like, think somberly and like looks off into the distance and then just kind of stops and sits, but doesn't say anything. - Bullshit. - Nothing happens. - I don't know what sucks. - Do we, do any of us have any kind of break-inschantment or sort of thing? - Yeah. - Collectively couldn't use our frame. - What's her? - She's just sitting there. She's not doing anything. - Say something to her. - Well, can I talk to her? - Yeah. - Okay. This is why I will say to her. I will say this room looks a lot different than the last time that I was in it. The last time I was in this room, the conversation was you asking me not to leave. And I did leave and I'm sorry. - Oh wow. - But what I didn't tell you that day is I was never gonna stay gone forever. I'm back. Everything is going to be okay. I love you, mom. Come back to me. - Okay, so you say that and you're still like in the shot with the mirror. (laughing) That first one is beautiful. Beautiful. You're in the shot with the mirror. Everybody kind of like feels a certain like tension in the room like alleviates. And there's a like, it's as if the room was just hit with air conditioning. Like there's like a coolness and calmness that enters the room. And the mirror that she is looking into, just like kind of like warps and bends over so slightly. - Oh boy, magic mirror and not good. - It then shatters. - Shatter, tell you. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Is it a loud shatter? - And. (laughing) - Well, actually, oh shit. - Come on, Malice Shieber has really soft carpet. I'm sure. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so to you, it sounds kind of loud, but nothing happens, okay. And she looks back up and looks directly at ODATI and she bursts into tears. - Oh, immediately hugs him. And she says, promise you'll never leave. - Yeah, well, I have to say, well, I promise I'll never leave, but we have to leave right now. (laughing) - We gotta go. - And she's like, yes, take me there. - And so you want to escape? What's the plan now? - I'm working the warehouse. - You guys are working on the warehouse. - Okay, we gotta go to this. - We're quick. - We're making her invisible. - Okay, great. Gonna quick cut to the warehouse. - Yeah, great. - You guys, so it's an interesting, like invisibility slash, like a illusion combo going on here. - We should, we should. - You guys make this up an option now. - You guys, you guys make your way into the warehouse and it is like dark torch and candlelit, like mounds of boxes and just like in inexplicable crates, kind of being stacked in odd ways. But as you make your way through this warehouse, you see guards that, let me roll the pet, pass you. They think they see you, but they don't. They're like, kind of passing. So they continue their patrol. Inside, you see, remember the teleportation state you saw in Bill's office? - We'll never forget anything that happened. - Or in Bill's basement. - Yeah. - This is 10 times that size. - Oh boy. - It is taking up basically the entirety of, if you were to look directly above you, the entirety of the dance floor. - Where are we setting those boxes? Are we gonna transport all the nobles to where? - Are they transporting all the guests? - You don't know what that, you don't know what it is. Run it, both of you roll in our cane check. - Are they gonna move the dance floor? - Lincoln, is it wonderful life? - Are we adding to that? - Plus your wisdom? - One. - So that's, I got a date. - So I have a nine total. - Okay, so you vaguely remember for when you set up that teleportation state before, that it was an arrangement of stones. - Yes. - That we knew what to do. - Turn it off. These seem to be placed in what you think are the right places, but it's so big that you actually can't tell how many stones that are needed. So you can't quite tell if this is like in development, you know that this is very powerful magic that is still yet to be built, and it doesn't seem complete to you. - Okay. - That's really, that's all you see. - Sounds like this might be for the next campaign. - Might be interesting. - Mm-hmm. - Can you pocket a couple of those rocks? - Yeah, what if we just took some of the stones? - Yeah. - You say some rocks? - That way they're missing key elements and they can't make a state. - Yeah, great. - Quick cut to the bedroom. You guys are evacuating mom? - I have made Odadi's hot mom invisible. - Hot mom invisible. Run a concentration check on Leo. - 13. - Yeah. - 13. - Proud of you, Leo. - Yeah. - Genuinely very proud of you. - Okay, great. - Blocked it.
>> Wonderful. So you guys open the door, past the guard. >> Thank you so much for letting us use a restroom. I so appreciate it. >> I mean, I certainly hope he didn't go in there. That's just the lady's bedroom or whatever. Like it's not, wait, is that? >> Is there not an ensuite in the bedroom? >> Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess that's fine. But you know who I can ask, Larry. And he points directly next to you and, oh, Daddy's stepfather, Larry is right next to the guard. >> He's fucked. >> Damn it. >> Smiley, he dropped his anger. >> God damn it. >> Oh, welcome back, son. >> And with that, we will end. >> Whoa! >> And we will see you on the next episode of "Ringer Quest." >> The thing about Larry, he's always where you least expect it to be. >> Exactly. >> What a player. >> So, with that, we will end. We would like to thank our crew once again. Thank you so much to Alayez and Eris, Jonathan Rat. >> That was Jacob Fordett. Ryan Todd. >> We don't know what happened. >> Kevin Curie and Chris Thomas, Dembrilley, Scott Lee, and Arjuno Ramgo Powell. We will see you next time on "Ringer Quest." >> In a little over a year. >> You're gonna have to do it sooner. >> Give us some time. >> We have to do it. I need to know what happens next.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The party enters the Black Rose tavern, a sleek and elegant but dangerous establishment where everyone is an assassin, and a hidden threat looms.
Through conversation and the use of detect thoughts, the group learns that Jimisin, a former family member, is actively working to undermine the current regime and has been trying to eliminate key figures like O'Dati.
Jimisin reveals he sent assassins to kill the party’s allies, believing they were a threat, and that his stepfather, Larry, is attempting to erase the old bloodlines and rewrite the city’s history, putting the group’s family and mother in danger.
Summary:
The party continues their investigation in the Black Rose tavern, a high-risk, all-assassin establishment where every interaction carries danger. Through skillful roleplay and the use of detect thoughts, they discover that Jimisin, a powerful figure with ties to the party’s family, has been orchestrating a covert campaign to eliminate threats and destabilize the city. Jimisin reveals he sent assassins to kill the heroes’ allies, believing them to be dangerous, and that his stepfather, Larry, is attempting to erase the city’s original bloodlines and history.
The group learns that Jimisin’s actions stem from a deep fear of losing control, and that his mother—now unstable—is a key target. With this intelligence, the party formulates a plan to infiltrate Larry’s upcoming fancy dress ball as a cover to gather information, knowing full well that direct confrontation would be deadly. To gain access, they must retrieve the body of Bill Millman, a skilled forger, to use his corpse as a proxy for a resurrection spell.
They travel to Bill’s shop to recover his body, then transport it to a back cave, where they find a hidden note from a former agent, Bob, who bequeathed his midnight major armor to the party. This discovery strengthens their belief that the city’s true history is being erased and that only by uncovering the old bloodlines can they stop Larry’s reign. The group now prepares for a high-stakes infiltration, with the knowledge that their mission is not just about survival—but about reclaiming their identity and protecting their family from being erased.
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The Black Rose tavern is a seemingly upscale, elegant establishment where everyone is an assassin, making it a dangerous and secretive location. It serves as a key setting for gathering intelligence and uncovering hidden truths about the characters and the world.
Corin is the hooded figure playing cards in the corner of the tavern. He is a key informant who reveals information about King Larry and the assassin known as Jimisin, helping the party uncover critical details about the conspiracy.
The bartender is a vital source of information, providing insights into the town's dynamics and the dangers lurking around. She also reveals that everyone in the tavern is an assassin, adding to the tense atmosphere.
Through the use of detect thoughts, the characters learn that Jimisin is deeply afraid of being discovered, and that he is involved in a larger conspiracy to protect his family, especially his stepfather, who wants to eliminate the protagonist and their allies.
The reference to the movie *The Dead Zone* serves as a metaphor for a moment of critical decision-making. It highlights how a single image or event can lead to a drastic outcome, echoing the gravity of choices the characters face in the story.
They plan to infiltrate the ball by pretending to be guests, using forged invitations. To avoid detection, they will use a backdoor entrance marked by a green lantern, which Jimisin promises will be lit if they are allowed to enter.
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